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Anybody interested in a ride out to Turlough Hill hydro station on Sunday 13th July?

Skill Magill · 2014-07-02 21:13:36

I was reading that the Esb are offering free tours of this amazing feet of engineering on that weekend, on its 40th birthday. The engineers chopped the top off the mountain and scooped out the insides in order to create an artificial lake. They then bored down through the mountain to a lake below, fitted turbines and let…

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#32 13-07-2014 5:33pm

Skill Magill

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Got it back, the valve seals were shot, hard to tell about the rings, worth replacing though if you go in that far, So I left Clondalkin for a spin, took it up through the sally gap, just couldn't find signs for Turlough hill, so kept spinnin around,
doesn't back fire anymore (well a bit of popping when I hard throttle off). Joe, (who did the bike) also found that the down pipes for the akropvic cans had corroded at the seal and welded them back into shape, this involved refluxing, polishing them down refluxing until metal was rebuilt back up. He did a very thorough job, and addressed what was up, bear in mind I never asked him to do the pipes, but gave him free range.
Fúck buses I'm back on the road!!

Oh and Ed, you cost me a fortune, but I'll burger you at the next meet!

Sometimes i get my R's confused with my G's, Ed you now what I mean

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